mdriftmeyer

That makes zero sense. iOS apps are subsets of macOS applications in Foundation Kit, AppKit, etc. Catalyst makes it easier for developers to port their third party iOS apps to macOS by doing heavy lifting that they don't want to for them.

There is zero heavy lifting for Apple to do on itself.

SwiftUI integrates inside AppKit, not the other way around.

The irony to those unfamiliar with my old company, NeXT Software Inc, is the look and feel of the Apple Store is a direct reflection of the style aesthetics of NeXT Inc, HQ. The same floors, the same minimalist design, all of it.

Steve was overlord in its design and the Apple Stores. I know I was there. Steve was overlord in redoing the Mac Cafe at Infinite Loop One. I know I was there. Steve was and always will be remembered for his meticulous eye to detail. The new campus is the last child of his creation and he left it in the hands of Ives to fulfill his vision to the last solar panel. If he had lived there would have been improved iterations in its final outcome to the day it opened. Nothing was ever just good enough. He knew design was as alive and forward moving as life itself.

There were hundreds of iterations on the Apple Store, with just slight variations from one to the next. The vast majority of people wouldn't notice the difference of iteration 10 to iteration 50, but if you know what your aim is you see it immediately. That was orchestrated by him. His goal was for the consumer to never be distracted while in the Apple Store. to quickly scan the store, take in the vast majority of it at once and know the next time you come in you know exactly where to go and fulfill your needs. In short, the exact opposite of a Brick n' Mortar store where they baffle you with distraction to hopefully get you to impulse buy and kill hours of your day doing nothing.

This is all lip service and I don't blame then one bit. We have piss poor advanced manufacturing training in the US, period. They have zero interest in spending billions to get White Americans interested in the world of fab assembly they way they do it. They also have zero interest in having Intel or others poaching and/or vying for trade secrets when they are expanding in Taiwan.

Trump has zero power to demand US stops manufacturing in China. When he's gone in November none of this will be news anymore.